Magnetic Lake

A freak accident and lots of pollution result in Possum Lake being magnetized. Life in the area becomes very difficult, especially for anything metallic. So Red and his pals decide to try and demagnetize the lake. Can they do so without reversing the Earth's polarity and sending the moon hurtling into the sun?

Cast (in order of appearance):, , , , ,

Segments: Red's Campfire Songs, Handyman Corner, The Experts, Red's Poetry, Hap Shaughnessy's Houseboat, Adventures With Bill, Harold's Segments, Glen Brachston's R.V.

Harold's Segment
RED GREEN: {voiceover} Now here's something for the kids which does not represent the views or opinions of any intelligent human life-form. Harold?

Plot Segment 3
{Red enters the Lodge, still covered in various metal objects.}

RED GREEN: Boy, this is inconvenient. Well, we figured out how to demagnetize the lake. What we're gonna do is, we're gonna make an electromagnet out of the Possum Van. We've wrapped her in, I think, about 500 yards of tinfoil, and we're gonna hot-wire that whole unit into the local power grid, which we can tap into, we figure, about 50 trillion megavolts, which I believe gives us somewhere in the range of 500,000 kilowatts, so... Which will be just enough to exactly demagnetize the lake. Or possibly, reverse the earth's polarity and sending the moon hurtling into the sun. {Suddenly, the faint sound of thunder is heard, electricity crackles and the lights dim slightly dim.} Oh, here we go.

''{Cut to a view of the lake at night in a thunderstorm. A bolt of lightning flashes but actually goes up rather than down. Cut back to inside the Lodge. The thunder and crackling stop and the lights return. Red is now completely free of metal objects on his body. He looks down and is amazed. Little does he know, however, that the metal objects have somehow been transferred to Harold's body.}''

RED GREEN: {impressed, not looking at Harold} Well! That was a total success!

HAROLD GREEN: {through his teeth; muffled, panicked} Uncle Red!

{Red now notices that his nephew is covered in the metal objects that he himself was covered with only moments earlier.}

RED GREEN: Holy jeeze, Harold, what're you, the Terminator or the Tin Man?

HAROLD GREEN: {muffled} My retainer got welded to my filling! Haw! I can't talk!

RED GREEN: {grinning broadly} Oh, no, that's a setback, Harold.

{The "Squeal of the Possum" sounds.}

HAROLD GREEN: {muffled} Oh, it's meeting time.